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As soon as I saw this video, I thought of Gareth, how he would add colors and make cool things out of it.

But then another thought came to mind, what if we could make a machine (like an expresso caffee machine) that used the proper ingredients to make plastic filament for a 3D printer? Now THAT would be cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LskPNBvbuqM

I was out for the weekend and it seems there was a lot of talk on this subject. It happened that I had one of my bee hives swarm and I had trouble retrieving it. However, this gave me a thought of changing the theme a bit: Robotic Bee Colony. 

I decided to resuscitate the LMR soccer game using my new µBipedino robots. The game will play as it was originally discussed, just with different players. These new robots can run around for about an hour on a fresh charge (when a Bluetooth module is attached), so the game will consist of 2 halves of 30 minutes each.

You may have read my idea for a Mini Robotic Ant Farm. I just re-read it yesterday and today I had a new thought:

Online RoboCraft!

Wow, the guys from Always Innovating are amazing! They managed to run 4 operating systems at once on a Beagle Board (and on the Touch Book and Smart Book tablets): Android, Ubuntu, Chrome OS and AIOS. By pressing the User Button on the Beagle Board you can switch between the started OS-es. Why would you need that? I have no idea, but I find it cool!

Quote from IEEE Spectum:

DARPA to the robotics community: the challenge is on.

In a reply to this post: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/31641 I have exposed one of my software problems that I encountered on one of my robots. I am re-posting this separately with some added info: